Otto Strasser

Otto Strasser (10 September 1897-27 August 1974) was the founder of the Strasserist Black Front political group and the brother of Gregor Strasser. The brothers were early supporters of the Nazi Party, but their views were more based upon mass action by workers, rather than race-based. He went into exile in Czechoslovakia in 1930 after being expelled from the NSDAP, and he returned to West Germany after World War II.

Biography
Otto Strasser was born on 10 September 1897 in Windsheim, Bavaria in the German Empire, the younger brother of Gregor Strasser. He served in the Imperial German Army during World War I, and he served in the Freikorps during the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919. Strasser joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany, but he grew alienated with the part when it put down a workers' uprising in the Ruhr industrial region, so he joined the Nazi Party in 1925. He formed a socialist branch of the party alongside his brother, and the faction supported strikes, nationalization of banks and industries, and closer ties with the Soviet Union. In 1930, he was expelled from the Nazi Party due to Adolf Hiter opposing his socialist views, and he fled to Czechoslovakia and then to Bermuda and Canada. He lived in Montreal during World War II, and he was allowed to return to West Germany in 1955 after the war's end. He advocated his Strasserist views until his death in 1974.